From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 22 14:43:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA13109 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:43:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA13038 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:43:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA19909; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 23:43:22 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA05934; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 23:43:22 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id WAA06637; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 22:57:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607222057.WAA06637@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Tape drive Help To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 22:57:18 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: green@aries.isf.rl.af.mil (Charles Kenneth Green - PRC) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199607221638.MAA17566@aries.isf.rl.af.mil> from Charles Kenneth Green - PRC at "Jul 22, 96 12:38:54 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Charles Kenneth Green - PRC wrote: > At present, if I use dump to backup my system I am > unable to restore the dump on my freebsd system. Restore Reports > "tape read error: Input/output error". However, if What does your syslog tell about the reason of these errors? (Have a look into /var/log/messages.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)